Essay/Review of Zayd Ayers Dohrn's book Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground,

I do not recall seeing this forwarded to the list - apologies are=20
applicable if it was...

I heartily recommend this review (well, less a review than an=20
impassioned essay on whether
the actions of the Weather Underground can be justified) of the recent=20
book by the son of Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

A clip...

"The charge that the Weather Underground was ineffective is much more=20
difficult to dispute. If
the moral critics of Dohrn and Ayers have a bit of ground to stand on,=20
it is that at least their flavor
of political homicide gets results: we really did depose all those=20
governments, silence all those
dissidents, bend the world to our will. The Weather Underground failed.=20
If they had succeeded,
we would talk about them the way we talk about the Irish Republican Army=20
or the African National
Congress. The moral questions would fade into the hazy background of so=20
much historical contingency.
But if the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what?"

(Not behind a paywall.)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-doh=
rn-weather-underground/

- Bill


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